Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Peter Cetera
Jon Secada
cicadas

May as well throw Neil Sedaka into the mix, actually.

Neil Sedaka
A grapefruit

I always think Neil Sedaka is the guy who did Cherry Cherry.

for some reason I often get Peter Cetera and Paul Carrack confused

one sounds like he swallowed a flute, one sounds like Alan Thicke

yeah, they're singing styles are nothing alike, but I often catch myself thinking about that time Peter Cetera joined Squeeze or something like that. It's a haze of journeyman singer-songwriters from the 80s.

The Clientele
Clinic

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Peter Hammill - Fool’s Mate

The fussy hologram doctor on Star Trek whatever who looks like David Cross

Joe Dante rep company stalwart Robert Picardo

William Golding
William Goldman

I don't really get them mixed up, but whenever I come across Olivia Rodrigo's name in print, I have to focus for a second to tell myself it's not Oingo Boingo.

I'm always confusing the names of various ominous organizations so I made a handy chart to keep track pic.twitter.com/A12DozNKNs

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From the list of voters in the all-time movie poll:

Thermo Farrell
Andrew Thinwall

John Giorno
Jean Giono

Vali Myers
Valie Export

W.G Sebald
W.S. Merwin

Mousa Dembélé
Moussa Dembélé
Ousmane Dembélé

Goofy
Pluto

Royal Blue
Navy Blue

^Haha that would be a UK-specific one I suppose. Although where royal ends and navy begins I could see being a contentious point.

Yes, I was wondering what those were called outside the UK, if they have specific names at all.

I mean, sky blue is pretty obvious ... and universal.

They’re called the same things in the US but there’s not the natural link between the words ‘royal’ and ‘navy’

Oh right, like 1776 never happened.

the word "royal" in the US usually makes people think of RC cola

Does it? I would think of the Kansas City baseball team first and then maybe the old typewriter brand.

Wrt to 1776 I think that in the American imagination the British will always be associated with the color red, because of the coats they wore at that time. It’s also why the New England Patriots changed their dominant uniform color from red to blue back in the 1990s. People thought it was incongruous that they would wear red jerseys given the historical connotations.

Navy blue is darker than royal blue. I associate that color with pea coats.

Mark Kozelek
Mark Lanegan

esp likely to mix up when discussing the oddball/asshole humans as opposed to their music (as recently in Covidiots thread)

Sparklehorse
Lambchop

Warren Ellis the shitty comic book guy vs. Warren Ellis the Bad Seed and Dirty Three guy

The former has been all over Twitter this week for shitty behavior and more than once I've gotten bummed thinking it was the latter before I remembered the other guy exists.

I suspect the bad Warren Ellis attempted to return from cancellation just 49 weeks after https://www.somanyofus.com/ because he saw outpouring of support and good press for the other Warren Ellis launching an animal sanctuary in Sumatra, and thought he might be able to trend positively

What about the bed Warren Evans?

https://warrenevans.com/beds/

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Glenn Greenwald
Glenn McDonald
(only because I keep wondering why ILX keeps calling Glenn McD "indefensible")

James Franciscus
Tony Franciosa

^Wow

Gregg Araki
Jon Moritsugu

(may have listed this before)

Coulda sworn I did Franciscus/Franciosa before on this thread but evidently not. One thing that helps me tell them apart is I can easily imagine Tony Franciosa saying “That’s sensational!” but James Franciscus I can’t

Which one was Longstreet, the blind(ed) detective? Believe it is the second one.

Which one was married to Shelley Winters? Less sure of that.

Longstreet = James
Mr Winters = Tony

By the second one I meant James Franciscus. Who did indeed play Longstreet and the other one was married to Shelley Winters, as I suspected but couldn’t be sure of.
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Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

Before Tony Franciosa, Shelley Winters was married to Vittorio Gassman for two years!

Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

They're nothing alike of course, Franciscus was a bland blond and Franciosa was a scenery chewing NY Italian with a Kirk Douglas chin.

Shelley Winters stayed single for 45 years after the Franciosa thing and then remarried one day before she died

Actually it was James Franciscus who married William Wellman’s daughter! The confusion continues!